[PATCH 1/1] Staging: hv: storvsc: Move the storage driver out of staging
Julian Andres Klode
jak at jak-linux.org
Mon Oct 17 14:10:21 UTC 2011
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 08:59:36AM -0500, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Sun, 2011-10-16 at 03:01 +0000, KY Srinivasan wrote:
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: James Bottomley [mailto:James.Bottomley at HansenPartnership.com]
> > > Sent: Saturday, October 15, 2011 5:27 PM
> > > To: KY Srinivasan
> > > Cc: gregkh at suse.de; linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org;
> > > devel at linuxdriverproject.org; virtualization at lists.osdl.org; ohering at suse.com;
> > > linux-scsi at vger.kernel.org; hch at infradead.org; Haiyang Zhang
> > > Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] Staging: hv: storvsc: Move the storage driver out of
> > > staging
> > >
> > > On Fri, 2011-10-14 at 23:28 -0700, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote:
> > > > In preparation for moving the storage driver out of staging, seek community
> > > > review of the storage driver code.
> > >
> > > That's not exactly a very descriptive commit message for me to put into
> > > SCSI. It doesn't have to be huge, just something like "driver to enable
> > > hyperv windows guest on Linux" or something.
> >
> > Sorry about the commit message. I will have a more descriptive message in the next
> > submission.
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > > drivers/scsi/Kconfig | 7 +
> > > > drivers/scsi/Makefile | 3 +
> > > > drivers/scsi/storvsc_drv.c | 1480
> > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > > > drivers/staging/hv/Kconfig | 6 -
> > > > drivers/staging/hv/Makefile | 2 -
> > > > drivers/staging/hv/storvsc_drv.c | 1480 --------------------------------------
> > > > 6 files changed, 1490 insertions(+), 1488 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > What tree is this against? The hv/storvsc_drv.c in upstream only has
> > >
> > > jejb at dabdike> wc -l drivers/staging/hv/storvsc_drv.c
> > > 792 drivers/staging/hv/storvsc_drv.c
> > >
> > > i.e. whatever you're sending is double the length (and obviously I have
> > > trouble applying the patch.
> >
> > This patch moves the file from drivers/staging/hv/ directory to the
> > drivers/scsi directory; hence double the length.
>
> No, that's not it. Look again: the storvsc_drv.c in staging is removing
> 1480 lines, but in git head, this file is only 792 lines long ... is
> there an alternative tree with the rest in?
>
> The point I'm making is that the staging file you're modifying isn't the
> one I see in Linus' git head, so which git tree is it in (I assume it's
> somewhere waiting for the merge window)?
I guess it's the staging tree you're looking for.
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Julian Andres Klode - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member
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